Watch: Trump Twists Truth About Obama, Romney, Twitter, Polls, Policy
Birther King Donald Trump had a big reality-bending Friday, falsifying facts and tweaking truths about President Obama, Mitt Romney’s China policy, the Donald’s poll numbers, and even how many followers he has on Twitter. Is Donald Trump’s self esteem so low he has to lie? Or can he just not help himself?
Via The Daily Beast:
“Look, it’s very simple,†said Trump, who has spent the past 13 months questioning Obama’s constitutional eligibility to occupy the White House (and only doubled down with his stubborn skepticism after Obama produced a long-form birth certificate, certifying he was born on Aug. 4, 1961, in Hawaii, and then hilariously roasted him at the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner. “A book publisher came out three days ago and said that in his written synopsis of his book,†Trump went on, “he said he was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia. His mother never spent a day in the hospital.â€
Actually, Obama’s literary agency at the time, two decades ago, published a recently discovered catalogue of clients and their projects that included erroneous information about Obama and a prospective book about race that he ended up not writing. An agency assistant back then, Miriam Goderich, said last week that she was mistaken when she wrote that Obama was born in Kenya.
But Trump isn’t buying it.
“That’s what he told the literary agent,†Trump insisted. “That’s the way life works… He didn’t know he was running for president, so he told the truth. The literary agent wrote down what he said… He said he was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia… Now they’re saying it was a mistake. Just like his Kenyan grandmother said he was born in Kenya, and she pointed down the road to the hospital, and after people started screaming at her she said, ‘Oh, I mean Hawaii.’ Give me a break.â€
The Democratic National Committee was quick to pounce on Romney’s apparent willingness to be associated with Trump’s birtherism after The Apprentice star’s role was disclosed in an emailed Romney campaign fundraising solicitation earlier Thursday.
“Once again Mitt Romney is failing the moral leadership test,†DNC press secretary Melanie Roussell said in a statement. “Instead of rejecting Donald Trump’s ‘birther’ conspiracy theories and divisive attacks, he’s endorsing them by campaigning and fundraising with him… This type of false and extremely divisive rhetoric has no place in the political discourse of our country and Mitt Romney should stand up against it instead of standing with Donald Trump to raise money for his campaign.â€
But if that wasn’t enough, Trump later Friday morning appeared on “The View,” claimed he was doing very well in the polls (hardly — his brief surge “collapsed” just as quickly, and his unfavorables outweighed his favorables), but quit because he liked Mitt Romney’s foreign policy on China (also bunk.) He also claimed he has “millions” of followers on Twitter (1.2 million is not “millions,”) and says he would accept an offer to run as vice president.
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